[Bug 739431] New: Provide a --enable-asan switch in configure.ac

[GStreamer (bugzilla.gnome.org)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739431
  GStreamer | gstreamer (core) | git

           Summary: Provide a --enable-asan switch in configure.ac
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer (core)
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mathieu.duponchelle at epitech.eu
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---


When enabled, programs linked against gstreamer-1.0 are validated by libasan.
It seems with gcc 4.8 there is no leak detection, which might explain the
remarkably low number of asan errors in the test suite (only one issue found in
a recent addition to bytereader.check, and the error is in the test afaict).

I expect more issues to be detected when compiling gst-plugins-bad in a similar
fashion.

I would love to have feedback from someone that can use gcc 4.9, will discuss
on the IRC tomorrow, for now I'll just attach a patch and call it a day.

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